Feingold Endorses Warren

Elizabeth Warren picked up a significant endorsement in her bid to oust Republican Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts. Former Wisconsin senator Russ Feingold gave Warren his first Senate endorsement of 2012, calling her campaign “an absolute crucial part of our fight against the nasty influence of corporate money in politics.”

Feingold, in an email to supporters, suggested Warren was the best candidate to carry on his progressive traditions. To accomplish that, Feingold asked supporters to donate $5 each to Warren before she has to submit her first public financial data on Friday, showing how much money she has raised.

Warren’s campaign has received a lot of attention, but she must first win the Democratic primary. National Democratic leaders have vowed to stay neutral in the primary fight, but given the attention Warren has received, reading between the lines suggests she is their clear favorite as well.

The Warren-Feingold partnership is a natural fit. Feingold has a long history of advocating for progressive and populist Wall Street and corporate reform. Feingold’s word carries significant weight in the progressive community and this first endorsement shows how serious they are taking her campaign.

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Elizabeth Warren is in fact one of the most remarkable women in the US.

Had she been actually been installed as Special Advisor to oversee the development of the new Consumer Financial Protection Board, she would have sought to insure that the rights of all Americans were better preserved.
Obummer was under a great deal of pressure, to not appoint her, it seems as though the people in the shadows of American life did want her upsetting business as usual.

She will make a fine senator for the State and people of Massachusetts and she will become a force in Washington.

what a surprise, a dogmatic progressive statist (oops repeating myself aren't I?) blessing another. No way is this something unusual.

Sen Brown is no prize in much of working or thinking America with his Massachusetts Dem lite style of Republicanism but he is so much better than what Taxachusetts has chosen to foist on the nation for decades that it'd be nice to see him actually reelected.

But with someone like Warren and her doctrine of power to the state running against him, I would not be surprised to see Taxchusetts voters feeling that misery loves company will want her to "represent" them. Anyone that can babble the nonsense she does will fit right in to that group of thieves/power mongers lurking in DC.

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AMERICANS NEED JOBS, NOT CUTS. Many of our best workers are sitting idle, while the work of rebuilding
America goes undone. Together, we must rebuild our country, reinvest in our people and jump-start the industries of
the future. Millions of jobless Americans would love the opportunity to become working, tax-paying members of their
communities again. We have a jobs crisis, not a deficit crisis.
To produce this Contract for the American Dream, 131,203 Americans came together online and in their communities. We
wrote and rated 25,904 ideas. Together, we identified the 10 most critical steps to get our economy back on track and
restore the American Dream:
1. INVEST IN AMERICAS INFRASTRUCTURE.
Rebuild our crumbling bridges, dams, levees, ports, water and
sewer lines, railways, roads and public transit. We must invest in
high-speed Internet and a modern, energy-saving electric grid.
These investments will create good jobs and rebuild America. To
help finance these projects, we need national and state
infrastructure banks.
2. CREATE 21ST-CENTURY ENERGY JOBS.
We should invest in American businesses that can power our
country with innovative technologies like wind turbines, solar
panels, geothermal systems, hybrid and electric cars, and
next-generation batteries. And we should put Americans to work
making our homes and buildings energy efficient. We can create

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